support term apps in pipeline

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We should generalize the support for terminal applications so that e.g.:

cat foo | less

works as one might expect.  Probably change the "term" builtin to support
optional stream input.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cgwalt...@gmail.com on 21 Jan 2008 at 7:45

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Original comment by cgwalt...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2008 at 8:51

• Added labels: Milestone-Release0720

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WIP patch.  This one looks to be a bit hard though, because what we really need 
to do
is fork the subprocess but have its stdin be a pipe to Hotwire, rather than the 
pty.

Original comment by cgwalt...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2008 at 2:46

• Changed state: Started

Attachments:

• hotwire-term-input.patch

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Now waiting on: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514447

Original comment by cgwalt...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2008 at 2:13

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But how could this be ported to Windows? Is there a VTE port to Windows? I was
thinking about the same thing other day, but I couldn't find a cross-platform 
term
implementation.

Original comment by Zeng.Shi...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2008 at 4:19

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There is a Windows port that works now, see:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369310

This will give us a very flexible, high quality terminal implemetation on 
Windows.

Original comment by cgwalt...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2008 at 4:22

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Cool. Thanks for the pointer.

Original comment by Zeng.Shi...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2008 at 5:38